Doing the Good Work

Graydon Kowal

One of the players still in the game with 14 left is Graydon Kowal. We don’t see Kowal out for these tournaments very often, but when he does come, he tends to figure in the endgame.

He has a pretty good reason for being too busy to play poker, however. He is the owner of Guardian Helicopters and a seasoned pilot himself. He is here for a bit of time off to enjoy the poker after spending 40 hours in the air last week fighting the wildfires in northern Manitoba.

While playing poker for tens of thousands of dollars can be stressful at times, one has to think that flying a chopper full of water over a raging wildfire gives a person a certain resistance to stress, so he’s likely the player in the room who is most equipped to stay calm under pressure.

Kowal has two live wins in his poker career and nearly $200k in earnings. A podium finish tonight will certainly push his lifetime total over that milestone, which would be a nice little poker feather in his cap before he goes back to the good work of fighting wildfires.

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